While raising Daughters

When i got to know that i just delivered a baby girl the first thing that came in my mind was fancy dresses , painted nails , mom n me matching dresses...but little did i knew that she would have her own agenda at hand.From non stop chatting to a dying obsession of all things pink , from the favorite Disney princess to the Crowns and bows for the hairdo...i tell you they are a breed in themselves. Here are a few things i am sure you would also be doing if u are having these cute daughters.

1. You'll buy her stuff she doesn't need.

Shimmery hair bands, polka dotted tights, tiny princess purses, socks that look like ballet shoes: It won't be long before your tiny toddler has a more extensive accessory collection than you do. You would constantly buy her stuff she doesn't need. She would love fashion but not the way you want her to see it.

In fact, don’t be surprised if you’re more excited by the stash of fun accessories than she is. 

2. She may be way girlish than you are.

Even if you've done your best to create a gender-neutral play area stocked with remote cars, trains and all sorts of "boy" toys, she may develop a passion for princesses and Barbies and pretty pink kitchens. Some girls just naturally flock to the girly stuff.  She would want to carry her pink purse with a pink hanker chief and a strawberry lip gloss with matching jewelry to everywhere possible no matter how small their hands may be to carry these things. 

3. Her desire to borrow your heels, jewels, handbags and more will start as soon as she can walk and talk .

Ask your daughters to tag along for a walk till the nearby park and they would run to your shoe rack and come out wearing your newest footwear coz their's would be not in sight.  

You would be getting ready for a party and just throw a sight below you, your half length would be standing besides you with her pout out, demanding for a matching mom and daughter lip color.

In the toddler years this is silly dress-up at its best, so enjoy it. Soon enough she'll be wanting to borrow these things for real. Be prepared for battle. 

4. Everything starts early.

Well, this is a universally known fact that girls seem to hit the major development milestones before the similar aged boys.Rolling over, sitting up, blowing kisses, clapping hands, potty training, reading..etc etc etc she would master all these before their fellow boys.

5. She'll strike a sexy pose.

She might be dancing or rehearsing for her show and tell competition, or simply just showing off her new Dora/Sofia/Elsa/Cinderella dress when this happens : With her head thrown back and hip thrust out...you would suddenly get a deja-vu of looking at a miniature Manish Malhotra's model.

They would make sure that in every possible picture of theirs, they have their sunglasses on . Once we were staying in a hotel where we opted to go for water fun the next morning in the pool...and OMG my girls had their swimming costumes, bath robes and most importantly their sun glasses packed in their bags.
I am seriously looking forward to their teenage years

6. You'll relish the excuse to read "Sleeping Beauty," and "Alice in wonderland" again

Besides the walk down memory lane, you’ll also appreciate the excuse to snuggle together.

My 3 and 5 year daughters are still in their fairy - princess and fantasy stories time frame.
And i love painting them stories of butterflies and angels every night. 

Well, hoping they soon catch up with my kind of novels . 

7. She'll likely go through an "I'm only wearing dresses" phase.

Somewhere around the age of 3, she'll develop definitive ideas about what she wants to wear that may or may not be in alignment with what's clean, the weather, standards of decency or what happens to be in style at the particular moment. 

Just when you have neatly arranged her wardrobe keeping in mind her choices, her preference may just change to some other curious thing ( an old dress which had pink flowers, cat printed jeans or simply a dress which had a shrug attached) for the next stretch. The sooner you realize it really doesn't matter, the happier you both will be.

It also helps if you can find a way to keep her comfortable — and covered up .When my daughter went through the ‘only wearing dresses phase,’ I was relived to find ‘cyclying’ shorts (as we call them in our house) at various stores to wear under them without looking goofy.“Why do the dresses with bottom covers stop at size 24 months?”

8. She'll collect ... everything.

Broken hair bands, old rubber band, erasers, barbie's sandals, loose buttons, cards from their school girls...she would collect them all and would stuff it in her favourite purse or bag and she honestly can't help it.You would find it every where  even her wardrobe's secret drawers would have these useless things kept so preciously.Try to argue them...they would go all sentimental over them, giving you stories behind each article.

9. Last but the most annoying one is this :You'll fight over her hair constantly.

It's in her eyes. It needs a trim.You like it up, she likes it down. You won't  believe it , i fight with my 3 year old every morning to get two cute ponies in her hair but 99% of the times we end up having only one crown on her hair ( coz mom...i want to look like a princess).